Fri, Apr 27, 2007
April 27-29, 2007
RICHARDS HALL ROOM 118
UNL Clay Club Holds Annual Spring Ceramics Sale
The UNL Clay Club will host its Annual Spring Ceramics Sale on Friday, April 27 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday, April 28 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The sale is held in Richards Hall, Room 118 on UNL's city campus, across the parking lot from the football stadium.
Works of ceramic art created by undergraduate students, graduate students and alumni will be for sale. The work includes functional pottery, vessels and sculpture, and represents a broad range of aesthetics, techniques and concepts. For more information, call the Department of Art and Art History at (402) 472-2631.
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, AT 7:30PM
ARYA Sponsors Tuvan Throat Singers
UNL student group ARYA and co-sponsors Southeast Community College, the Nebraska Humanities Council and KZUM radio are offering a rare glimpse at a unique musical art at the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery this weekend. Saturday, April 28 at 7:30 p.m., the Alash Ensemble, a group of Tuvan Throat Singers, will perform "a strange, beautiful tapestry of sound and rhythm."
Throat singing developed among the semi-nomadic herders in the region of Central Asia that includes Tuva, Mongolia and the Altai. Because throat singing produces a musical sound that carries over long distances, the music became a way for shepherds, yak herders and horsemen to entertain each other and communicate across vast areas of steppes and taiga. Throat singers use their voices to create the sounds of the natural world; the music also is closely tied to Tuvan spiritual beliefs.
ALSAH ENSEMBLE
Stefanie Butcher - "Lake Minatare"
EISENTRAGER-HOWARD GALLERY, THROUGH MAY 4
BFA Capstone Exhibition Opens
The BFA Capstone Exhibition, featuring the work of graduating Bachelor of Fine Arts studio art majors, opens April 27 and continues through May 4 in the Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall. A reception will be held Friday, May 4 from 5 - 7 p.m. in the Gallery. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday, noon to 4 p.m.
Nearly 20 students from all studio areas are scheduled to show their work in this exhibition. They are: Heather Blanchard, Stefanie Butcher, Caressa Cantrell, Grant Evert, Robert Francis, Laura Hanson, Alexandra Hill, Ashley Johnston, Kristy Munter, Bethany Nelson, Nathan Ohlrich, Shanna Petsche, Mark Restani, Megan Russell, Pete Storonskij, Lauren Van Wyke, Joseph Vavrina, Aaron Von Seggern and Alex Zeller.
OLDFATHER HALL, ROOM 538 - FRI 11:30AM
Brown Bag Lecture Series - "Institutional Design Matters: Power Relations and Good Governance in the World Bank"
Jonathan R. Strand from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas
201 BRACE LABORATORY, FRI 1:30PM
CMN/NSF-MRSEC Seminar - "On the Single-Molecule Microscopy and Spectroscopy"
Dr. Rafal Korlacki, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy and Department of Chemical Engineering, Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience, University of Nebraska
HAMILTON HALL, FRI 3:30PM
Chemistry Colloquium - "Development of Novel Transition Metal-Catalyzed Methodologies"
Professor Vladimir Gevorgyan, University of Illinois at Chicago
AVERY HALL ROOM 115, FRI 4PM
Mathematics Colloquium - "Unfolding polyhedra"
Ezra Miller, University of Minnesota. The talk will be preceded by refreshments in 348 Avery Hall.
BASEBALL | HAWKS FIELD, HAYMARKET PARK, FRI 6:35PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Kansas State Wildcats
SOFTBALL | BOWLIN STADIUM, HAYMARKET PARK, SAT 2PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Oklahoma State Cowboys
BASEBALL | HAWKS FIELD, HAYMARKET PARK, SAT 2:05PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Kansas State Wildcats
TRACK AND FIELD | ED WEIR STADIUM, SUN 11AM
Nebraska Open
SOFTBALL | BOWLIN STADIUM, HAYMARKET PARK, SUN 1PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Oklahoma State Cowboys
BASEBALL | HAWKS FIELD, HAYMARKET PARK, SUN 1:05PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Kansas State Wildcats
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
The Host, The Animation Show Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Host and The Animation Show. Both films will run through May 10.
The talk of the 2006 Cannes International Film Festival, The Host, the latest film from critically acclaimed visionary director Bong Joon-ho, has already garnered a substantial amount of international buzz. Utilizing state-of-the-art special effects courtesy of a creative partnership between Weta Workshop (King Kong, The Lord of the Rings) and The Orphanage (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Sin City), The Host is equal parts creature-feature thrill ride and poignant human drama.
The Animation Show is an annual feature-length compilation of the best animated short films from around the world, exclusively curated by Mike Judge (Office Space, "Beavis and Butt-Head," "King of the Hill") and Academy Award nominated animator Don Hertzfeldt (Billy's Balloon, Rejected, The Meaning of Life). The Animation Show launched in 2003, making it the first festival of animation created and produced with actual animators at the helm. A sister series of high quality Animation Show DVDs now supplement the theatrical tour with additional insights and brand new lineups of films - while the main Show remains a unique and unforgettable annual program that is usually gone forever once it is out of theaters.
More information is available at the Ross website.
